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    12 Angry Men Jury Duty

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    United States justice system‚ we also fail to realize that every single juror counts. We often hear of jurors conforming‚ and switching their votes to the majority vote in hopes of going home‚ but this is not the case in “12 Angry Men”. In Sidney Lumet’s feature film “12 Angry Men”‚ we are given insight to the pressures of social psychology and how one man strives to overcome and change it.

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    12 Angry Men Analysis The movie 12 Angry Men is a very abstract movie. It gets the audience thinking about the clues and the fact of the matter which is if the boy is actually guilty. This movie shows many of the concepts that are talked about in our book and in our class. The movie is about an 18 year old boy whose mother has died when he was 9. He has lived in many orphanages and has a juvenile record. His father has been in and out of jail for many things‚ and on one night that the boy

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    12 Angry Men - Ob Concepts

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    12 Angry Men (1957) is a gripping and an engrossing examination of 12 jurors who are deciding the fate of a young Puerto Rican boy in a murder trial. It is phenomenal that a movie with a running time of just 96 minutes and shot in just one room could be so impactful and so intellectually stimulating that it could be a source of immense learning for generations to come in the field of psychology‚ social psychology‚ Organizational Behavior anddecision making. In this paper‚ we will be exploring 3

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    ¬¬‘In 12 Angry Men‚ Rose shows that doubt is an easier state of mind than certainty’ Discuss. In the play 12 Angry Men‚ Reginald Rose uses comparisons between the characters to show that doubt can be an easier stance‚ then to be certain. At the beginning Rose uses the alienation of juror 8 to depict certainty to be an easier state of mind but as the story progresses the readers are shown negative changes in attitude for the jurors that are certain therefore showing doubt is an easier state of mind

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    “12 Angry Men” In the Film “12 Angry Men” Aristotelian rhetoric was used by the jury members to make a case for the accused. The eighth juror was the one to shed light on this case. He did so by using two of the three rhetoric styles. Juror eight used Pathos to convince one other jury member by stating that just because he grew up in the slums doesn’t mean the accused did it. He gained the sympathy of the jury member who had come from the same background and made something of himself. The same

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    "12 Angry Men" occur in New York City in 1957 and focuses on a jury’s deliberations in a capital murder case. The jury has 12 men and is sent to begin deliberations in the first­degree murder trial of a young man who is 18­year old accused of stabbing his father who died because of it. If someone is found guilty it means death sentence. The case appears to be “open­and­shut”. The defendant has a weak alibi; the knife he claimed to have “lost” is found at the scene where the stabbing occur. Several

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    12 Angry Men: Art of Persuasion According to the legal system of the United States‚ every man put on trial is considered innocent until proven guilty. In the beginning of the film 12 Angry Men‚ however‚ this theory can almost be considered false to the jurors involved in a murder case. This 18-year-old Italian boy from a slum is on trial for stabbing his father to death. It is apparent that most jurors have already decided that the boy is guilty‚ and that they plan to return their verdict quickly

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    12 angry men is a 1957 film about 12 Jurors deliberating a court case about a murder. This case involves an 18 year boy being accused of killing his father. If these Jurors found the boy guilty he would be sent to the chair also known as a death penalty. When the men enter the blazing hot room they had a break before meeting up‚ then had a vote if the boy is guilty or not. All of the Jurors except one found the defendant guilty. When they realized Juror #8 is against them‚ they get rattled up and

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    How does Rose use structural elements to strengthen his examination of the judicial system? Rose uses the structural elements of the play to further his position‚ critiquing the flaws of the judicial system. 12 Angry Men takes place in ’real time’‚ which allows for the play’s characters to further develop and creates a sense of realism. The characters of the play are representative of the play’s message‚ that decisions such as the one the jurors must make are important‚ and cannot be viewed with

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    The setting of the play enhances the tension among the men. discuss. 800-1000 words In his play‚ 12 Angry Men‚ Reginald Rose reveals how the confined space of the jury room is not only hot weather wise but hot because of the heated exchanges and the tension. The descriptive nature of Rose’s writing depicts the immense pressure that the jurors are under and the below par conditions they are given to make a life or death decision for the boy. Rose recognises that even though there may be tension and

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